[SFS_Aerondor] 01-06 A Night in Nightarch (Inactive)

Game Master Aerondor

To make it easy for me to fill in the chronicles, could you please provide for the character you want to credit this to...

Chronicle: What chronicle number will this be for your character?
Player name: Your name, as you want it to appear on the chronicle
Character name: The name of your character
Organized play #-#: Your society play and character numbers
Faction: Characters Faction slotted
[b]XP: Your starting XP
Fame: Your starting fame
Credits: Opening credits before purchases
Day job: Your day job skill and roll.
Reputation: Which factions you have reputations with (and how much) before participating in this scenario.
Boons: Any boons you have slotted. (you may change these after the briefing)

Purchases: Any purchases you wish to make from your initial funds, before the start of the game.
Starship role: This scenario has starship combat. Please nominate the role you would like on the ship and include your relevant skill bonuses.

Please introduce yourself in gameplay.

Please also add an icon for your character to the first page of the map.

Chronicle: 11
Player name: Mike O'Donnell
Character name: Magnus Chaal
Organized play #-#: 99317-702
Faction: First Seeker (Jadnura)
XP: 10
Fame: 14
Credits: 1056
Day job: Your day job skill and roll. Savior of Tasch
Reputation: Acquisitives 10, Dataphiles 7, First Seeker (LE) 2, First Seeker (Jadnura) 3
Boons:Faction- First Seeker (Jadnura); Personal- Scoured Stars Survivor; Social- Faction's Friend; Slotless- Marked Field Agent, True Savior of Tasch

Chronicle: 8
Player name: Marjim Marc Arafiles
Character name: Mobius Caslan
Organized play #-#: 259680-701
Faction: Dataphiles
XP: 7
Fame: 13
Credits: 3845
Day job: Foregoing for True Savior of Tasch
Reputation: Dataphiles - 14
Boons:
Factions - Dataphiles Champion
Slotless - True Savior of Tasch
Personal - Scoured Stars Survivor

Purchases: TBA

Sorry, Credits should only be at 1920 because I forgot to update my chronicle sheet. Previously bought an upgrade.

Credits now at 1,165. Purchased Autotarget Rifle for 775 credits.

I've sent PMs to the folk who signed up, so hopefuly they should start to check in..

Update on Magnus

Chronicle: 11
Player name: Mike O'Donnell
Character name: Magnus Chaal
Organized play #-#: 99317-702
Faction: First Seeker (Jadnura)
XP: 11
Fame: 16
Credits: 2555
Day job: Your day job skill and roll. Savior of Tasch
Reputation: Acquisitives 10, Dataphiles 7, First Seeker (LE) 2, First Seeker (Jadnura) 5
Boons:Faction- First Seeker (Jadnura); Personal- Scoured Stars Survivor; Social- Faction's Friend; Slotless- Marked Field Agent, True Savior of Tasch

Chronicle: 7
Player name: Phillip Wood
Character name: Twik "The Jack"
Organized play #-#: 127693-702
Faction: Wayfinders
XP: 6
Fame: 12
Credits: 2867
Day job: Nil
Reputation: Wayfinders 13, Second Seekers (Luwazi Elsebo) 1
Boons:
Ally: Honorbound Allies
Faction: Wayfinders
Personal: Legacy Heritage
Promotional:
Social: Faction's Friend
Starship: One of Automated Defenses, Defender of the Fleet, Hero of the Stars or Honorbound Allies
Slotless: Starfinder Insignia, Ghibran Linguist, Marked Field Agent & Star Sugar Heartlove!!!

Purchases: TBA (so the credits value listed above may change)

Twik also needs to undergo a levelup which I'll do in the next day or two.

Well.. I'm going to try and get us a bonus player so we can get started.

Happy to jump in if you need it! Lvl 5 mystic.

Chronicle: 13
Player name: Chris Wasko
Character name: Id-Sinitis
Organized play #-#: 125136-702
Faction: Wayfinders
XP: 12
Fame: 11
Credits: 1,413
Day job: Profession (dockworker): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (9) + 9 = 18
Reputation: Acq 1, Data 1, Exo-G 2, SS (LE) 1, SS (Jad) 1, Wayfinders 26
Boons:
Ally: Elite Hireling Access (Set 1)
Faction: Improved Wayfinders Champion
Personal: Scoured Stars Survivor
Promotional: Promotional Reroll (V-L polo shirt)
Social: Contractor's REspect (vector graviton pistol)
Slotless: a bunch

Purchases: none

Hello! Thanks for the PM! Looks like we are going low tier? Levels 3-4?

Twik is updated and ready to go.

Purchased Lashunta Tempweave, Basic & Hail Pisol, Subzero.

New starting credits: 797

Aerondor, if you still need someone to fill out spot #6, I have a 4th level operative that could step in. I do still need to bring his character sheet up to date. I also don't want to take a spot from someone who signed up in case they show.

We have four now so we can kick off. Sovyal you are number six. If the other of my other initial signups comes in we may have a table of seven.

Swarmbait, I assume you are subbing in for Breq, who you initially signed up as. No biggie one way or the other to me.

Can those of you who have not posted your information do so?

OK! Sovyal is basically updated for 4th level.

Chronicle: 8
Player name: Cellion
Character name: Sovyal
Organized play #-#: 233690-702
Faction: Acquisitives
XP: 9
Fame: 17
Credits: 1623
Day job: Profession (Sommelier): 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (9) + 12 = 21

Reputation:
Acquisitives - 18
Second Seekers (Luwazi) - 1
Second Seekers (Jadnura) - 1

Boons Currently Slotted:
Ally: Dream Whispers
Faction: Acquisitives' Champion
Personal: Scoured Stars Survivor
Promotional:
Social: Honorary Spider (+1 circumstance bonus to Intimidate)
Starship: Defender of the Fleet
Slotless: See boon list in profile.

Purchases: Still TBD.

Couple of relevant things to mention ahead of time for Sovyal.

First, he has the necrograft subtype, which gives him the following weakness

Second, Sovyal's thing is that he's a dedicated debuffer. As a 4th level Star Knight archetyped character he has the ability to "Challenge" when he trick attacks. This is a free attempt to demoralize 1/foe/day. If the demoralize is successful, not only is the enemy shaken, but its also Off Target for the same duration (but only when attacking creatures OTHER than Sovyal).

Furthermore, Sovyal has Grim Trophies, which makes enemies who are shaken by him to apply the shaken penalty (-2) to their weapon damage rolls in addition to attack rolls.

I'll try to put reminders about his potential debuffs in when Sovyal attacks, but I figured I should give you a heads up Aerondor.

Thanks.

Where do all these come from?

Necrografts are Armory. Star Knight archetype is Pact Worlds. Grim Trophies is from one of the Dead Suns books (2nd?).

Chronicle: 10
Player name: EwokBanshee
Character name: Hudathan Swarmbait
Organized play #-#: 240237-701
Faction: Exoguardians
XP: 9
Fame: 16
Credits: 671
Day job: None
Reputation:

Exo-Guardian Reputation: 9
Tier: 1

Dataphiles Reputation: 7
Tier: 1

Boons:

Faction: Exo-Guardians
Starship:
Social: Faction's Friend
Slotless: Elixir of Renewal, Claimant to Salvation, Marked Field Agent, Star Sugar Heartlove!!!, True Savior of Tasch (5/5), Starfinder Insignia

Purchases: None

Yes, I switched from Breq because this guy freed up and he's more fun! He's supposed to be level 4. I'll update him tonight.

Chronicle: 5
Player name: Friendly Sauce
Character name: Krombopulous Micheal
Organized play #-#:64043-702
Faction: Aquisitives
XP: 6
Fame: 12
Credits: 249
Day job: n/a
Reputation: Aquisitives, 12
Boons: True savior of Tasch

Purchases: n/a

Please introduce yourself in gameplay.

I forgot, I also have a shirt!

Promotional: Promotional Reroll (Goblin IPA)

Oh, I have a shirt as well. several actually.

season 5
season 6
Core Rulebook
gang of goblins

hopefully I won't need to use my reroll though haha

Sovyal is exceptionally good at intimidate (+14), which strikes me as the kind of tactic that drow would use among one another. He can also bluff fairly well (+13), though I don't have a good bluff to get him to help us off the top of my head.

Six attempts doesn't seem like very many. Hmm.

You could always back your intimidate up with a bluff or vice versa. I’m afraid I won’t be of much use other than possibly aiding in this encounter friends.

Magnus has a +11 + 1d6 in Diplomacy; +10 in Intimidate. Does anyone have any Profession or craft skills that might impress our drow host?

Yeah, I am not that useful in social encounters. I have a +4 to intimidate, if you need an aid.

Twik has +12/+11/+11 in Bluff / Intimidate / Diplomacy. I’m sure we must be able to use those.

I also suspect that Sense Motive and Perception can be used as well (+10 and +8 respectively).

Judging from the manner in which he asks to be persuaded “spits” I suspect he’s not so indifferent as he is letting on. Maybe we can play up the family connection some how. Make it a matter of honour / bad for business / Favor among friends etc etc.

Yeah, Mobius isn't much of a talker with 10 Charisma. Might aid though if needed.

Well, I gave it a start, playing off of some of Twik's ideas. Unfortunately, rolling a 3 on the bluff check is likely to make that part a failure (unless we're allowed to aid another). OTOH, the intimidate should be plenty.

Magnus, you want to try taking the diplomatic lead?

Twik, Sense Motive sounds like a good 4th skill, I'll try to aid if allowed (with a +6).

Maybe Culture could be used as well in some way? (Sovyal has +11)

Id's Diplomacy and sense Motive are passable (+9 and +10, respectively).

Some profession type skills that may be especially useful are conselor, lawyer, corporate professional, manager,or merchant.

The scenario is open to you using a large variety of skills, but some will be harder than others. So don't feel you necessarily have to stick to the obvious. Just make sure your post backs up your skill use.

I feel like we're being extorted for credits :<

Twik, do you want to tackle the last check? Seems like you've got the best chances.

Just think of it as being able to buy back our failures haha.

I can pick up the next greasing if needed.

They are drow. Of course they are extorting you for credits!

Hmm. Like mystics, soldiers don't have a lot of skill points. Or Int. A hireling is a good idea! I'll have to look into getting one.

Hmm. Like mystics, soldiers don't have a lot of skill points. Or Int. A hireling is a good idea! I'll have to look into getting one.

The hireling access boons are the single most valuable faction boons I've found in the guide. Every one of my PCs has at least one.

I like them, especialy useful for covering "off" skills that turn up sometimes but are not often on a character.

Sorry for the delayed post, but traveling until Monday. Bot me as necessary.

With the official GD coming to an end soon, I'm going to do the boon rolls now. Wins on a 19 or 20.

Id: 1d20 ⇒ 20
KM: 1d20 ⇒ 18
Magnus: 1d20 ⇒ 19
Mobius: 1d20 ⇒ 1
Sovyal: 1d20 ⇒ 19
Swarmbait: 1d20 ⇒ 10
Twix: 1d20 ⇒ 4
GM: 1d20 ⇒ 17

WOW, that is a lot of good rolls. I'm glad they were for boons not Drow attacks.

I need email addresses for Id, Magnus and Sovyal

Exact boon
Id: 1d2 ⇒ 2 Emergency resupply
Magnus: 1d2 ⇒ 2 Emergency resupply
Sovyal: 1d2 ⇒ 1 Minimg Laser

Cool! I sent you a PM Aerondor.

Woop woop! Just PMed you.

Okay, inital reporting to the GD staff is done. Boons often take several weeks to arrive, so don't hold your breath, but they will get there eventually.

This game will likely show up in your records before we finish because of the need to report via the gameday crew and deadlines for getting that done. But there is no rush to actually finish. I want to be done before Christmas though!

Just to let you all know, I'll be at PAX Unplugged this weekend and therefore likely won't have any free time to post until Monday. If any of you happen to be at PAX, I'll be running PF2E Playtest demos in the afternoon on both days and running SFS1-09 on Sat evening.

If you need to, feel free to bot me with the info at the bottom of my profile. I've already used challenge on this guy once, so it'll just have to be a normal trick attack.

Traveling until Monday, bot me as necessary.

The boxes on the floor in the aisles - do they block movement and/or LoS? Or are they just difficult terrain or something else?

The boxes on the floor will count as difficult terrain.

Are the tentacles still there? If so how high up are they?

Hmm, I'd assumed they stayed there, but on re-reading I think they probably vanish.

So lets assume they appear, give a solid thwack to anyone in the area, and then vanish. I've moved the folk who were in the area aside.

Please note we are still in initiative at this time.

As a heads up for everyone: I'll be out on vacation from 12/16 through 1/6. I'll be travelling into areas with pretty dodgy internet, so keeping up with this game is going to be very tricky (I was hoping when we started that we'd blaze through this scenario as fast as my last Aerondor game. I think we did the entirety of SFS 1-10 in 3 weeks!). I might be able to post once or twice over the next week, but can't make any guarantees.

I have some basic botting instructions for combat in my profile, and would appreciate if you could bot me. Thanks!

Sorry for the slow-down. I think it is the season to a degree. And my own time commitments have been a little changed the last months.